High-tech imaging uncovered new insights into ancient mummies’ health and mummification methods. Egyptian mummy remains are being studied at Semmelweis University’s Medical Imaging Center (OKK) using ...

A rare discovery in the sands of Egypt is offering a startling new glimpse into ancient burial rites: archaeologists have ...

In the central Sahara, where sand now buries ancient lakes, scientists have pulled genetic material from 7,000-year-old mummified women and found DNA that does not match any living population. The ...

A new type of CT scanner is giving scientists an unusually clear look insideEgyptian mummies that are over 2,300 years old.

The mummy, believed to date back to the Ptolemaic period (around 332–30 BCE), was not newly excavated, but rather rediscovered through modern science. It has been housed at the Archdiocesan Museum in ...

The historical text found inside the mummy was The Iliad, one of the most important works in Western literature.

A Spanish-Egyptian team have uncovered a fragment of Homer’s Iliad inside a mummy at Oxyrhynchus, revealing how ancient texts were reused in burial practices and shedding light on the spread of Greek ...

Thomas Pettigrew, a nineteenth-century surgeon and antiquarian, threw parties in London at which he unwrapped ancient Egyptian mummies for his guests’ titillation. Modern scanning technologies mean ...

Researchers believe the hidden object may be a papyrus scroll or an amulet.